9 months old- Jan 24th

Holy moly how are you 9 months old?!?!?!? Time is flying by too fast! You are getting to be less and less like a baby and more like a big boy everyday.



*You weigh 22lbs (68%) and 27.75 inches long (25.92%)--still a shorty for how tall we are.
*Just busted out some 18 month clothes this week, your 12 month pants were just not doing it anymore
*Size 4 diaper
*Still not crawling really...more of rolling all over and then going side to side and backwards, going a lot from sitting to crawling and crawling to sitting.
*You like to stand up and hold on to things one handed for a long time.
*Love all your new toys from Xmas, ones the play music and your blocks.
*Eating foods, picking them up by yourself really well. Love puffs and anything we eat. Not into your mush purees anymore. You are pretty much eating with the big kids at daycare, snack and all and only using cups no bottles!
* You nap usually around 9 and then again closer to 1.
*Still going to bed at 7 and sleep until 630 or so. You go down still pretty well without a fight.
* Love playing with your toys in the bath.
* Still grabbing everything, Love to pull mamas hair.
* Saying mama and dada but not sure if you really get what they mean.
* You can see your two bottom front teeth, white spots but they have not officially poked all the way through yet. Im sure it wont be long.
* Love to be put upside down and act like were going to drop you or like you are attacking us. You laugh so hard.
* Your blonde hair is coming in a lot more esp in the past week.
* Changing your diaper is becoming more of a challenge everyday, you move and flip over onto your tummy. AT night too you just want your bottle and dont want to go through the putting on your pj process.
* Pickles are your absolute fave. You love to chew on them.
* Bella loves you, she goes right up next to you and even lets you pull on her fur.
* Still like to shake your head no at us.
* You went for your 9 month checkup and you cried the entire time, didnt want your head measured, temp taken, to be weighed or measured. The doc said you looked really good and was not concerned that you arent officially crawling yet. As long as you are moving around is all that matters. We then went to the lab for a finger prick to test your blood and I was like great I can just imagine how youll react to this but you luckily just sat in my lap and stared at her..and man that took forever to get the amount needed. You are good till you turn a year old.

Food

You are so interested in what we are eating..we cant eat in front of you without you pulling for it and wanting some too. The veggie purees just arent doing it for you anymore either. You want to eat what we are eating. You have mastered shoving puffs into your mouth. We have been giving you more of what we eat now, we tried some cottage cheese this past weekend as well and you made a face but liked it after the first few bites. I made some homemade soup this past weekend and you loved it along with little pieces of crescent rolls. We are pretty much out of most of our frozen purees we had made so I guess its good you are getting ready for real foods.